Dhoni and his Jharkhand cricket team members were staying at Delhi’s ITC Welcome hotel when a fire had broken out there on March 17.

While Dhoni, along with other hotel guests were safely evacuated, on March 18 he found that three of his mobile phones, including an iPhone, went missing from his room during the fire.

While he immediately filed a police report, it was later found that it was an “error in judgment” on the part of the person who took it as the phones were reportedly removed during sanitization process.

“It was an error of judgement on the part of the person who took the phones. He and a couple of other staff had entered the cricketer’s room to sanitise it. He took away the phones without knowing their ownership. When the police contacted him, he accepted and handed over the devices to us.” – senior police official

In his complaint, Dhoni had alleged that he had left his phones in the hotel room when he had gone for breakfast but when his staff went to pack his things after the fire, his mobile phones were missing.